Results for “Red Tory”
My Congressionally-Mandated Constitution Day Lecture
...of Independence may be America’s Sacred Scripture, the Constitution is our Torah, and carries with it a sort of quasi-divine authority validated by years of success and celebration. Many…
“Seventy Years Ago”: A Review of Red Stilts by Ted Kooser
...place where people come together. In Kooser’s case, poetry can offer an occasion to gather, if not literally, then in the mutual understanding of a shared language, shared concepts,…
It’s the Land, Stupid
...fire power on a dodgy finance plan. Sorry Charley Foxtrot, no can do. The old greensward is a tad manky after the industrial opening and the knackered nipper is…
Of Bees and Boys
My brother Brett and I were polite but rambunctious children who made a game of killing bees and dumping their carcasses into buckets of rainwater. Having heard that bees,…
After Romney: Republican Soul-Searching
...as revealed in Christ can be embodied in the Bible with God's being reduced to paragraphs, accompanied by the attempt to "scientifically" reduce God to the "original" meaning of…
Into the Whirlpool: Is Secession a Solution to Our Woes?
...writes, had a “substantially true narrative of grievance and atrocity” about the other side that ensured a politics of mutual destruction. All that mattered was that the other side…
Democracy and Coercion
...to our own communities, we might rediscover the basic political instincts eroded by three centuries of liberal dogma; or the hope that an election between Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich,…
Forget Red vs. Blue, America is Cactus vs. Philodendron
...me with the force of epiphany: Red vs. Blue is shopworn and superficial. In the midst of a summer in which San Francisco voters recalled their ultra-progressive district attorney,…
The Young and the Insurance-Less
...employer-provided insurance tax exemptions. Make tax exemption apply to non-employer sponsored insurance as well or get rid of subsidies for employer-sponsored insurance to make it an even playing field…
Abraham Lincoln and the Destruction of Place
...Jackson) because such agrarianism kept white people imprisoned by place and black people imprisoned by chattel slavery. While most Whigs abhorred African slavery, they did so for the same…
FPR v. PoMoCon, Part Deux
...the illusions associated with being "Red" are dead, thank God--even Red Tory. V. Maro Grammaticus This entire debate has reminded me of a comment made by G.K. Chesterton that…
A Season of Gluttony
...for a glutton to swallow. Fall in Montana. The scent of wood smoke in the crisp air. Hard frost presaging the coming of winter. Green tomatoes hanging on limp…
The Economics of Splitting Wood by Hand
...locust. When upon approaching my home in winter one smells the smoke curling out of the chimney, there are a number of possible suspects: oak (red, black, and white),…
Bees’ Wings & Zerks
...when she and Fritz pulled in the driveway to chat about the start of planting. The red chaff released from corn kernels might be called red dogs in your…
Baseball: Official Sport of the Front Porch Republic?
...stated: "Red Sox Nation, Play Ball!" 2. Reading The Independent here in Britain, it came to my attention that The Fenway Sports Group (who owns the Boston Red Sox)…
Something About Which Leftists, Localists, and Libertarians (But Probably Not Philosophical Liberals) Ought to Agree
...lest someone think I have stray un-PC thoughts." And history is not "bankrupt." A particular telling of history is either accurate or inaccurate or some combination of both. If…
Do Protestants Belong?
Hillsdale, Mich. Ever since I have lived, moved, and had my being in conservative circles, I have encountered an unspoken ambivalence about Protestantism. (Truth in advertising: I am a…
Without Athens, There is No R.E.M.: The Loss of Local Cultures
...so. I do take issue with the author's distinction of red and blue college towns, "Far from being the messy cultural heartbeat of their respective red states, places like…
To a Hare, From a Louse
...She was in the high grass near where the aerator sprinkler spreads the water from the Cottage’s septic system. As the mower neared, I saw her hop and move…
Pigs and Hollies and Swamps, Oh My!: Corrymeela Ranch, Limestone County, Texas
...shred the hollies to the ground, after which they would grow back! “What’s the point?”, I wondered repeatedly to myself. Native forbs and grasses are already starting to pop…
Life Under Sycamores
...drinking water, and he cuts through the craziness of this myopic vision like a Dutch Bushcraft Knife through butter. This is a serious inhibition to our understanding of wealth.…
The American Food System’s Very Bad Legacy
...exuding folksy common sense, raises the questionable safety of artificial red food coloring; his boys at home (who, one suspects, listen to Joe Rogan) have got him wondering why…
A Note on Right, Left, and Lasch at the Present Time
...before, has been engaged in for years: referring to Philip Blond and the way Red Toryism at least hypothetically imagines a “marrying up of liberalism and social conservatism,” he…
Idaho May…
...that I often read two books over the same period, alternating as the mood strikes. Seldom are they counterpoints or complements; they are merely the cheerfully incongruous products of…
